{"id":1789983,"date":"2021-01-25T09:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789983"},"modified":"2021-01-25T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T14:29:22","slug":"more-on-marie-tharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/01\/more-on-marie-tharp\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Marie Tharp"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new article on the life and career of Marie Tharp<\/a>, written by our friend Betsy Mason, was published by Science News<\/em> earlier this month. Plenty has been written about Tharp, whose work mapping the ocean floor helped provide the evidence for continental drift: numerous articles, a 2012 biography<\/a>, two books for children<\/a> just last year. But that doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t still people who still haven\u2019t heard of her, and should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new article on the life and career of Marie Tharp, written by our friend Betsy Mason, was published by Science News earlier this month. Plenty has been written about Tharp, whose work mapping the… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[772,591,430],"class_list":["post-1789983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-oceans","tag-continental-drift","tag-marie-tharp","tag-seafloor","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2735,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/marie-tharp-continental-drift-as-girl-talk\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789983,"position":0},"title":"Marie Tharp: Continental Drift as ‘Girl Talk’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 August 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Another profile of ocean cartographer Marie Tharp, this time from Smithsonian.com's Erin Blakemore. As Blakemore recounts, Tharp\u00a0crunched\u00a0and mapped the sonar sounding data collected by her collaborator, Bruce Heezen; her calculations revealed a huge valley in the middle of a ridge in the North Atlantic seafloor. \u201cWhen I showed what I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Geology"","block_context":{"text":"Geology","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/geology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"tharp-heezen","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tharp-heezen-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1809964,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/11\/marie-tharp-as-google-doodle\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789983,"position":1},"title":"Marie Tharp as Google Doodle","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 November 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Marie Tharp is the subject of today\u2019s Google Doodle, with an interactive narration of her life story. That story\u2014how Tharp\u2019s pioneering work mapping the ocean floor helped prove the theory of continental drift\u2014is familiar to long-time readers of this blog: this is the 12th post I\u2019ve made about the legendary\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Oceans"","block_context":{"text":"Oceans","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/oceans\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Google Doodle of Marie Tharp (screenshot)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/google-doodle-marie-tharp-1024x410.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/google-doodle-marie-tharp-1024x410.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/google-doodle-marie-tharp-1024x410.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/google-doodle-marie-tharp-1024x410.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1789071,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/07\/marie-tharp-at-100\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789983,"position":2},"title":"Marie Tharp at 100","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 July 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"July 30 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of pioneering ocean cartographer Marie Tharp, whose seafloor maps provided evidence of continental drift. Columbia University\u2019s Earth Institute is marking the event with blog posts, interviews, workshops and other social media and multimedia activity. See, for example, this overview of her\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Oceans"","block_context":{"text":"Oceans","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/oceans\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ocean-speaks-135x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3900,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/02\/marie-tharp-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789983,"position":3},"title":"Marie Tharp Video","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 February 2017","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TgfYjS0OTWw Marie Tharp, who died in 2006, has never been more in the public eye. This short\u00a0film for the Royal Institution, animated by Rosanna Wan and narrated by Helen Czerski, is the fourth profile I've seen of her within the past year. 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